Archives for May 3, 2016

I recently purchased a bumpersticker similar to this to go along with my “Gary Johnson 2016 #FeelTheJohnson” bumpersticker. But now that I’ve thought about it, I am having second thoughts.

“Don’t Tread on Anyone” — Fantastic encapsulation of the Libertarian Philosophy. Pretty much the reason I am a small “l” libertarian. Don’t tread on gay people who want to get married, but also don’t tread on Christians (or anyone else) who don’t want to be a part of the ceremony. Don’t tread on trannies who want to use a bathroom, but don’t tread on businesses that don’t want trannies in their bathrooms either. Don’t tread on gun owners; and if you don’t like guns, don’t own one. Don’t tread on people who want to fly the rainbow flag, and don’t tread on people who want to fly the Confederate flag.

Let the special snowflakes have their “Safe Spaces” where they can suck their thumbs, grasp their teddy bears, and tell each other how awesome the world would be if they were the only ones allowed to be mean to other people; but let conservatives be free to express their opinions without fat triggered feminists screaming obscenities at them.

The following article introduces the hobosexual as a concept in queer materialism. Mapped at the intersection of not-for-profit hobo sex and labor practices historically, the hobosexual collapses the apparent impasse between the material and the symbolic so prevalent in queer studies. The concept represents the redeployment of queer as anti-capitalist practice; highlighted are the non-normative hobo practices of nonproductive expenditure, but also the recognition that these abnormalities are organized by capitalist systems of normalization designed to engender profit. The article also considers the degree to which industrial capitalism affected both hobo mobility and hobo anti-capitalist practice in the 19th century. Generated out of hobo history and queer as anti-capitalist practice, the hobosexual represents resistance to capitalist systems of normalization and enables connections, not necessarily between identities, but between anti-capitalist practices generated out of difference.